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Camp Harmony: Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center

A book by Louis Fiset.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Organization which maintains digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II. Includes over 500 hours of interviews.

German American Internee Coalition

Focused on the history of internment of German Americans and Latin Americans during World War II, this site has name lists of over 7,000 civilians forcibly removed from Latin America by the US, interned in the U.S., and/or sent to Germany. Manifests of some of the ships used to transport these prisoners to the U.S. or Germany are included.

Internment of German Americans in the United States During World War II

Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

World War II Internment Camps

From the Handbook of Texas Online.